Is DG Comp more likely to raise a fine than to lower it?
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Morris Schonberg and Ron Knox
Featured In: EU Cartel Survey
Arguments for mitigating circumstances are one of the only possibilities a business has to reduce a fine for cartel activity. If persuaded that a cartelist didn’t have a major role in a price fixing conspiracy, or that the firm acted as a “nuisance” to the cartel, DG Comp has slashed the fine by as much as 75 per cent. But reductions of that scale remain rare.
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Contents
- EU cartel fines - raw data, patterns and trends
- Is DG Comp more likely to raise a fine than to lower it?
- Are smaller companies hit harder by DG Comp cartel fines?
- EU cartel fines - an analysis of the largest fines
- Does DG Comp unfairly target companies from certain countries?
- Is leniency crucial to DG Comp investigations?
- Can companies successfully plead poverty to DG Comp?
- A guide to the data and our methodology
- Poverty trap
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